Improvement in fastenings for stttds or buttons



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EDWARD MORTIMER DEEY, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

Lenen Patent No. 100,988,1atez March 22, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENING'S FOR STUDS OIRA BUTTONS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

to act as a guard in preventing return of the button after it has been inserted in the bosom or collar of a shirt or other garment, until the shank is brought into a straight line by hand, as I will further explain by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an edge view of my invention as it appears before entering a button-hole.

Figures 2 and 3 are side elevations of same.

Figures 4, 5, and 6 are views of said shirt-stud as it appears when inserted in a shirt, and showing the stem' as a guard to prevent its return; and

Figure 7, a view of the stud with its head removed so as to show the sliding bar and its operating-spring.

1n thes'aid drawings- A indicates the head of the shirt-stud;

B, the stationary portion of the stem;

c' c, the jaws of said stationary portion which receive the portion D, which is pivot-ed to the portion B at e e, forming a flexible joint.

F is'the sliding bar, which slides i'reely in the part D; and

G is the spiral spring which throws the sliding bnr F outward, so as to form, with the portion D, the,

guard, as shown in figs. 4 and 6.

The exible stem B D of the button is of oval or oblong` shape in transverse section, (see tig. 7,) for the" purpose of holding the button-head (which may represent some device) vertical, as well as for convenience in inserting the stein iu a ready-made long button-hole in the shirt-bosom.

To insert this shirt-stud in an article of wearing apparel, I iirst bring the stem into a straight 1ine,(see fig. 1,) and pass it through the aperture; and next I gently press the stem against my body, when the portion D of the stem will assume a right angle on one side with the stationary part B, and the spiral spring' G will push and keep the sliding bar F outward on the opposite side, forming, with the part D, the guard, and preventing return of the stud from the shirt until the stem `is (by hand) again brought into a straight line, when it can be drawn out from the article.

I am aware that a patent has been granted to B. Clayton, February 12, 1867, for a sleeve-button having a slidingbar in a crooked rigid stem, which was found to be so awkward as to deform and damage n shirt-bosom on inserting or removing the same, and has, in consequence, been little used or entirely abandoned. .l therefore do not claim such.

I. claim as my invention- A shirt-stud or button provided with a shank, ln', to which is hinged a bar, l), wit-hin whose socket a bar, F, slides, and is extended at right angles to the shank or parallel with the button-bead, it being held to duty by a spring, G, all in combination, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore setforth..

November 1S), A. l). 1869.

E. MORTIMER DEEY.

\Vitnesses:

ARTHUR NEILL, ARTHUR B. \V1LLL\.\rs. 

